Here's another example that it's hard to believe you guys have escaped similar circumstances. I went duck hunting a few years back and got a warning ticket. What happened was I bought my license and duck stamp seperately. In AR if you do that, you get a seprate license but it just shows that you purchased a duck stamp. Well I had been checked a few times that year already and apparently somewhere in the taking the license in and out the stamp came unstuck and fell off. The next time I went for my license (I was being checked at the time) my duck stamp was gone. You could see the outline of where the stamp and been stuck and you could plainly see on my license that I had purchased the stamp, but by the letter of the law, I was in violoation. However, that doesn't mean I was poaching or that I am a poacher. IMO it merely means that I am a human that occaisionally makes a mistake and that I was in violation. I will however accept the label of poacher from anyone that will willingly admit they are a criminal. If you have broken the law that's a misdemeanor (and everyone has) and you don't call yourself a criminal, then you have no right to call someone that has broken a game law that's a misdemeanor a poacher.